Simon is the Project Lead on Folk Tale, a fantasy citybuilder strategy game, and founder of independent games company Games Foundry. Having previously worked in the games industry as a Lead Artist, he spent fifteen years in the wilderness working as a programmer and project manager before finding his way back to a love of games development.

Making mistakes is a healthy part of game development when you admit, learn from and address them. With growing risk aversion on Kickstarter and scandals breaking weekly, the Folk Tale team are trying to do things a little differently.

With the two year anniversary of Folk Tale development fast approaching, its an opportunity to look back at the game's humble beginnings, and examine some of the decisions that have caused delays along the way.

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As a developer with an Early Access title on Steam, when Valve first announced the discounting tools, I had mixed thoughts. My immediate reaction perhaps echoed the OP, followed almost immediately by the realisation that it would have almost zero impact and it wouldn 't be something we 'd make ...

I 'd be interested in reading a developer 's experience of the sales impact of announcing when a significant sales milestone has been reached without pollution from any corresponding promotion . r n r nIn our case Folk Tale is a single-player game, so there is a reduced scope for ...

Good article, great comments. An enjoyable read discussing some of the issues I went through in my own mind a few years ago before taking the contrarian view, cancelling a social game we were working on, bypassing the gold-rush to mobile, and favouring a pure PC/Mac/Linux game. Given the fate ...

An interesting read over morning coffee. Thanks Anders. r n r nThe TL DR message for me was The names with negative semantic connotations were six times more common than those with positive connotations . I found that very interesting.